Definitions for MAIDmeɪd

This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word MAID

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah(noun)

a female domestic

maid, maiden(noun)

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

maid(Noun)

A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

Note -- maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.

maid(Noun)

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

maid(Noun)

A virgin of either gender.

Origin: mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Maid(noun)

an unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden

Maid(noun)

a man who has not had sexual intercourse

Maid(noun)

a female servant

Maid(noun)

the female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)

Origin: [Shortened from maiden. . See Maiden.]

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Maid

A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Maid

mād, n. an unmarried woman, esp. one young: a virgin: a female servant.—ns.Maid′-child (B.), a female child; Maid′-Mā′rian, the May-queen; a character in the old Morris-dance, usually represented by a man in woman's clothes (Marian, relating to Mary or to the Virgin Mary).—adj.Maid′-pale (Shak.), pale, like a sick girl.—n.Maid′servant, a female servant.—Maid of all work, a domestic who does general housework; Old maid, a woman left unmarried: a card game. [A.S. mægden—mægeð, a maid; cf. magu, son, mǽg, may.]

I want to tell you a story about someone that didn't speak English that well. It was my grandfather, my grandfather instilled in me the belief that I was blessed to live in the one society in all of human history where even I, the son of a bartender and a maid, could aspire to have anything, and be anything that I was willing to work hard to achieve. But he taught me that in Spanish, because it was the language he was most comfortable in.